Re: [patch 5/5] x86: Set PCI config space size to extended for AMD Barcelona

2007-09-03 Thread dean gaudet
it's so very unfortunate the PCI standard has no feature bit to indicate the presence of ECS. FWIW in my testing on a range of machines spanning 7 or 8 years i could read config space reg 256... and get 0x when the device didn't support ECS, and get valid data when the device did

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [patch] rdiff-backup over encfs + sshfs fix

2007-09-01 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Jon Kolb wrote: Matthew Flaschen wrote: Jon Kolb wrote: After poking around for a while, I discovered that on encfs/sshfs (or perhaps fuse in general), os.rename fails with Operation not permitted if the destination file already exists. That sounds like a bug

Re: [PATCH] [1/12] x86: Work around mmio config space quirk on AMD Fam10h

2007-08-12 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > > > > This does make me wonder, why these weren't caught in -mm ? > > I'm worried that -mm isn't getting a lot of exposure these days. People do > run it, but I wonder how many.. andrew caught it in -mm and

Re: [PATCH] [1/12] x86: Work around mmio config space quirk on AMD Fam10h

2007-08-12 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Dave Jones wrote: This does make me wonder, why these weren't caught in -mm ? I'm worried that -mm isn't getting a lot of exposure these days. People do run it, but I wonder how many.. andrew caught it in -mm and reverted

[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup 1.1.13 available

2007-08-12 Thread dean gaudet
Andrew has been busy. Time for a new release. -dean New in v1.1.13 (2007/08/12) --- Properly pickle QuotedRPaths. Fixes regress operation on quoted filesystems. Closes Savannah bug #20570 reported by Morgan Read. (Andrew Ferguson) Warn if can't write extended

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Simultaneous backups with same source and destination.

2007-08-12 Thread dean gaudet
1.1.x in theory protects itself from multiple writers to the same destination (i say theory because i haven't tested it). 1.0.x does not protect itself from multiple writers. -dean On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Matthew Flaschen wrote: What will happen if the same rdiff-backup sources and destinations

[rdiff-backup-users] reports of upgrading from 1.0.x to 1.1.x

2007-08-10 Thread dean gaudet
i see Andrew has been quite busy! excellent. he mentioned he is considering promoting 1.1.x to stable. what i'd really like to see is some testing of 1.0.x - 1.1.x upgrading on existing repos. also, can a user who has troubles with 1.1.x revert to 1.0.x? could some people install 1.0.x and

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] checksum check like rsync's --checksum

2007-08-10 Thread dean gaudet
fwiw backing up databases with rdiff-backup is unlikely to produce a properly restorable database (ditto rsync or even cp)... unless you're stopping your database server while the backup runs... or using a filesystem or volume snapshot feature. -dean On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Joost van den Broek

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: Error: Too Many values to unpack

2007-08-10 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, micah wrote: This time Debian stable (etch) has the rdiff-backup stable version 1.1.5, and 1.1.5 is not a *stable* version, it's an *unstable* version. http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ -dean ___ rdiff-backup-users mailing

Re: TLB sizes among x86 CPUs?

2007-07-31 Thread dean gaudet
http://sandpile.org/ On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote: > Good day. > > Would anyone happen to have a list of TLB sizes for some selected x86{,-64} > CPUs? I know it goes from a few entries on a 386 to a lot on Opteron but I > have a real hard time finding specific data. > > Rene. > - >

Re: TLB sizes among x86 CPUs?

2007-07-31 Thread dean gaudet
http://sandpile.org/ On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Rene Herman wrote: Good day. Would anyone happen to have a list of TLB sizes for some selected x86{,-64} CPUs? I know it goes from a few entries on a 386 to a lot on Opteron but I have a real hard time finding specific data. Rene. - To

Re: [PATCH] hugetlbfs read() support

2007-07-30 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Bill Irwin wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:07:59AM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > But I do think a second reason to do this is to make hugetlbfs behave > > like a normal fs -- that is read(), write(), etc. work on files in the > > mountpoint. But that is simply my

Re: [PATCH] hugetlbfs read() support

2007-07-30 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Bill Irwin wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:07:59AM -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: But I do think a second reason to do this is to make hugetlbfs behave like a normal fs -- that is read(), write(), etc. work on files in the mountpoint. But that is simply my

Re: [RFT][PATCH v7] sata_mv: convert to new EH

2007-07-18 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > What brand/model your sata_mv controller is? Would be nice to know to be > able to get a "known-to-work" one.. http://supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AoC-SAT2-MV8.cfm -dean

Re: [RFT][PATCH v7] sata_mv: convert to new EH

2007-07-18 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: What brand/model your sata_mv controller is? Would be nice to know to be able to get a known-to-work one.. http://supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AoC-SAT2-MV8.cfm -dean

Re: [RFT][PATCH v7] sata_mv: convert to new EH

2007-07-18 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: What brand/model your sata_mv controller is? Would be nice to know to be able to get a known-to-work one.. http://supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AoC-SAT2-MV8.cfm -dean

Re: Raid array is not automatically detected.

2007-07-17 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, David Greaves wrote: Bryan Christ wrote: I do have the type set to 0xfd. Others have said that auto-assemble only works on RAID 0 and 1, but just as Justin mentioned, I too have another box with RAID5 that gets auto assembled by the kernel (also no initrd). I

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup 1.1.12 released

2007-07-17 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Andrew Ferguson wrote: - Handling CIFS mounts that don't do symlinks, this is Savannah Bug #20342 (https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?20342). Does anyone have any thoughts about what we should do? I am leaning towards creating a dummy file. we already do dummy files for

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] different version of rdiff-backup on different machine

2007-07-17 Thread dean gaudet
ben has traditionally maintained backwards compat for the on-disk storage, but not necessarily for the network protocol. i think you can assume we'll attempt the same going forward. yeah i know it's a hassle in mixed setups, and if someone wants to learn the net layer well enough to provide

Bug#433135: source clean rule fails

2007-07-14 Thread dean gaudet
Package: spamassassin Version: 3.2.1-1 the following fails: apt-get source spamassassin cd spamassassin-3.2.1 fakeroot ./debian/rules binary fakeroot ./debian/rules clean because it can't deapply 10_change_config_paths ... for one thing 10_change_config_paths includes an INSTALL.orig...

Re: [RFT][PATCH v7] sata_mv: convert to new EH

2007-07-12 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > dean gaudet wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > > dean gaudet wrote: > > > > oh very nice... no warnings on boot, and no warnings while i "dd > > > > if=/dev/sdX > &

Re: [RFT][PATCH v7] sata_mv: convert to new EH

2007-07-12 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > dean gaudet wrote: > > oh very nice... no warnings on boot, and no warnings while i "dd if=/dev/sdX > > of=/dev/null" and i'm seeing 74MB/s+ from each disk on this simple read > > test. > > > > for lack of a

Re: [RFT][PATCH v7] sata_mv: convert to new EH

2007-07-12 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > As before, this patch is against 2.6.22 with no other patches needed nor > applied. > > In this revision, interrupt handling was improved quite a bit, > particularly for EDMA. The WARNING in mv_get_crpb_status() goes away, > because that routine went

Re: [RFT][PATCH v7] sata_mv: convert to new EH

2007-07-12 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: As before, this patch is against 2.6.22 with no other patches needed nor applied. In this revision, interrupt handling was improved quite a bit, particularly for EDMA. The WARNING in mv_get_crpb_status() goes away, because that routine went away.

Re: [RFT][PATCH v7] sata_mv: convert to new EH

2007-07-12 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: As before, this patch is against 2.6.22 with no other patches needed nor applied. In this revision, interrupt handling was improved quite a bit, particularly for EDMA. The WARNING in mv_get_crpb_status() goes away, because that routine went away.

Re: [RFT][PATCH v7] sata_mv: convert to new EH

2007-07-12 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: dean gaudet wrote: oh very nice... no warnings on boot, and no warnings while i dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null and i'm seeing 74MB/s+ from each disk on this simple read test. for lack of a better test i started an untar/diff stress test

Re: [RFT][PATCH v7] sata_mv: convert to new EH

2007-07-12 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: dean gaudet wrote: On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: dean gaudet wrote: oh very nice... no warnings on boot, and no warnings while i dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null and i'm seeing 74MB/s+ from each disk on this simple read test

Re: [RFT][PATCH 2/2] sata_mv: convert to new EH (v5)

2007-07-10 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > This is the latest update of the sata_mv conversion to new EH. I'm > looking for testers, of two configurations: > > 2.6.22 + patch #1 (baseline) > 2.6.22 + patch #1 + this patch (sata_mv new EH) > > This patch contains a

Re: [RFT][PATCH 2/2] sata_mv: convert to new EH (v5)

2007-07-10 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: This is the latest update of the sata_mv conversion to new EH. I'm looking for testers, of two configurations: 2.6.22 + patch #1 (baseline) 2.6.22 + patch #1 + this patch (sata_mv new EH) This patch contains a small but

Bug#429531: chan_read_failed log spam

2007-06-18 Thread dean gaudet
Package: openssh-server Version: 1:4.6p1-1 4.6p1 generates *lots* of log spam like so: Jun 18 00:16:23 twinlark sshd[18923]: error: channel 0: chan_read_failed for istate 3 Jun 18 00:16:23 twinlark sshd[18923]: error: channel 0: chan_read_failed for istate 3 there's a fix upstream:

Re: limits on raid

2007-06-17 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Wakko Warner wrote: > What benefit would I gain by using an external journel and how big would it > need to be? i don't know how big the journal needs to be... i'm limited by xfs' maximum journal size of 128MiB. i don't have much benchmark data -- but here are some rough

Re: limits on raid

2007-06-17 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Wakko Warner wrote: > dean gaudet wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Wakko Warner wrote: > > > > > When I've had an unclean shutdown on one of my systems (10x 50gb raid5) > > > it's > > > always slowed the system down when booting up.

Re: limits on raid

2007-06-17 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Wakko Warner wrote: dean gaudet wrote: On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Wakko Warner wrote: When I've had an unclean shutdown on one of my systems (10x 50gb raid5) it's always slowed the system down when booting up. Quite significantly I must say. I wait until I can

Re: limits on raid

2007-06-17 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Wakko Warner wrote: What benefit would I gain by using an external journel and how big would it need to be? i don't know how big the journal needs to be... i'm limited by xfs' maximum journal size of 128MiB. i don't have much benchmark data -- but here are some rough

Re: limits on raid

2007-06-16 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Wakko Warner wrote: > When I've had an unclean shutdown on one of my systems (10x 50gb raid5) it's > always slowed the system down when booting up. Quite significantly I must > say. I wait until I can login and change the rebuild max speed to slow it > down while I'm using

Re: limits on raid

2007-06-16 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, David Greaves wrote: > Neil Brown wrote: > > On Friday June 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > As I understand the way > > > raid works, when you write a block to the array, it will have to read all > > > the other

Re: limits on raid

2007-06-16 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, David Greaves wrote: Neil Brown wrote: On Friday June 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I understand the way raid works, when you write a block to the array, it will have to read all the other blocks in the

Re: limits on raid

2007-06-16 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Wakko Warner wrote: When I've had an unclean shutdown on one of my systems (10x 50gb raid5) it's always slowed the system down when booting up. Quite significantly I must say. I wait until I can login and change the rebuild max speed to slow it down while I'm using it.

Bug#429123: please update/request removal of your package

2007-06-15 Thread dean gaudet
go ahead and remove it. this package does not support apache2. (i might be listed as maintainer but i didn't upload it and know nothing about being a debian package maintainer.) -dean On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Package: libapache-mod-iptos Severity: serious Version: 1.1-1

Bug#429123: please update/request removal of your package

2007-06-15 Thread dean gaudet
go ahead and remove it. this package does not support apache2. (i might be listed as maintainer but i didn't upload it and know nothing about being a debian package maintainer.) -dean On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Package: libapache-mod-iptos Severity: serious Version: 1.1-1

Re: [shm][hugetlb] Fix get_policy for stacked shared memory files

2007-06-11 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Adam Litke wrote: > Here's another breakage as a result of shared memory stacked files :( > > The NUMA policy for a VMA is determined by checking the following (in the > order > given): > > 1) vma->vm_ops->get_policy() (if defined) > 2) vma->vm_policy (if defined) > 3)

Re: [shm][hugetlb] Fix get_policy for stacked shared memory files

2007-06-11 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Adam Litke wrote: Here's another breakage as a result of shared memory stacked files :( The NUMA policy for a VMA is determined by checking the following (in the order given): 1) vma-vm_ops-get_policy() (if defined) 2) vma-vm_policy (if defined) 3) task-mempolicy

Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2

2007-06-09 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > IOW, the most common case for libraries is not that they get invoced to do > one thing, but that they get loaded and then used over and over and over > again, and the _reason_ for wanting to have a file descriptor open may > well be that the library

Re: 2.6.21 numa policy and huge pages not working

2007-06-09 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 15 May 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:41:06PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote: > > prior to 2.6.21 i could "numactl --interleave=all" and use SHM_HUGETLB and > > the interleave policy would be respected. as of 2.6.21 it doesn't seem t

Re: [PATCH] Introduce O_CLOEXEC (take >2)

2007-06-09 Thread dean gaudet
nice. i proposed something like this 8 or so years ago... the problem is that you've also got to deal with socket(2), socketpair(2), accept(2), pipe(2), dup(2), dup2(2), fcntl(F_DUPFD)... everything which creates new fds. really what is desired is fork/clone with selective duping of fds.

Re: 2.6.21 numa policy and huge pages not working

2007-06-09 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 15 May 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:41:06PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote: > > prior to 2.6.21 i could "numactl --interleave=all" and use SHM_HUGETLB and > > the interleave policy would be respected. as of 2.6.21 it doesn't seem t

Re: 2.6.21 numa policy and huge pages not working

2007-06-09 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 15 May 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:41:06PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote: prior to 2.6.21 i could numactl --interleave=all and use SHM_HUGETLB and the interleave policy would be respected. as of 2.6.21 it doesn't seem to respect the policy

Re: [PATCH] Introduce O_CLOEXEC (take 2)

2007-06-09 Thread dean gaudet
nice. i proposed something like this 8 or so years ago... the problem is that you've also got to deal with socket(2), socketpair(2), accept(2), pipe(2), dup(2), dup2(2), fcntl(F_DUPFD)... everything which creates new fds. really what is desired is fork/clone with selective duping of fds.

Re: 2.6.21 numa policy and huge pages not working

2007-06-09 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 15 May 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:41:06PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote: prior to 2.6.21 i could numactl --interleave=all and use SHM_HUGETLB and the interleave policy would be respected. as of 2.6.21 it doesn't seem to respect the policy

Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2

2007-06-09 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: IOW, the most common case for libraries is not that they get invoced to do one thing, but that they get loaded and then used over and over and over again, and the _reason_ for wanting to have a file descriptor open may well be that the library

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Exclude-sockets not working (Mac OS X)

2007-06-07 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Ilari Scheinin wrote: I am running rdiff-backup with the --exclude-sockets option, but I am still getting this kind of error for every socket: ListError private/var/launchd/0/sock [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/private/var/launchd/0/sock' Good catch! If

Re: [patch 43/69] i386: HPET, check if the counter works

2007-06-05 Thread dean gaudet
ugh... do not send email before breakfast. do not send email before breakfast. nevermind :) -dean On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, dean gaudet wrote: > the HPET specification allows for HPETs with *much* lower resolution than > 50us. in fact Fmin is 10Hz iirc. (sorry to jump in so late, b

Re: [patch 43/69] i386: HPET, check if the counter works

2007-06-05 Thread dean gaudet
the HPET specification allows for HPETs with *much* lower resolution than 50us. in fact Fmin is 10Hz iirc. (sorry to jump in so late, but i'm about a month behind on the list.) -dean On Mon, 21 May 2007, Chris Wright wrote: > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let

Re: [patch 43/69] i386: HPET, check if the counter works

2007-06-05 Thread dean gaudet
the HPET specification allows for HPETs with *much* lower resolution than 50us. in fact Fmin is 10Hz iirc. (sorry to jump in so late, but i'm about a month behind on the list.) -dean On Mon, 21 May 2007, Chris Wright wrote: -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us

Re: [patch 43/69] i386: HPET, check if the counter works

2007-06-05 Thread dean gaudet
ugh... do not send email before breakfast. do not send email before breakfast. nevermind :) -dean On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, dean gaudet wrote: the HPET specification allows for HPETs with *much* lower resolution than 50us. in fact Fmin is 10Hz iirc. (sorry to jump in so late, but i'm about

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] ssh on different port

2007-06-05 Thread dean gaudet
look at fail2ban for the ssh probes... there are similar packages for non-linux as well. (although it shouldn't be too hard to port.) someone pointed out --remote-schema already... what i tend to prefer for ssh is to make up fake hostnames in .ssh/config. (see

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] --exclude-if-present option behaviour?

2007-06-05 Thread dean gaudet
it prunes the entire directory and its subdirectories. patches to clarify the man page are welcome. -dean On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, how does this new option behave in 1.1.10? it is not clear from the man page. does it only exclude directories or also

Re: [PATCH, RFT, v4] sata_mv: convert to new EH

2007-05-26 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Already uncovered and fixed a few bugs in v3. > > Here's v4 of the sata_mv new-EH patch. you asked for test results with 2.6.21.3 ... that seems to boot fine, and i've tested reading from the disks only and it seems to be working fine. ditto for

Re: [PATCH, RFT, v4] sata_mv: convert to new EH

2007-05-26 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: Already uncovered and fixed a few bugs in v3. Here's v4 of the sata_mv new-EH patch. you asked for test results with 2.6.21.3 ... that seems to boot fine, and i've tested reading from the disks only and it seems to be working fine. ditto for

Re: [PATCH, RFT, v4] sata_mv: convert to new EH

2007-05-26 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: Already uncovered and fixed a few bugs in v3. Here's v4 of the sata_mv new-EH patch. you asked for test results with 2.6.21.3 ... that seems to boot fine, and i've tested reading from the disks only and it seems to be working fine. ditto for

Bug#399271: nmh strcasecmp problems

2007-05-22 Thread dean gaudet
i've finally tracked this down: nmh code assumes strcasecmp accepts NULL arguments. for portability reasons sbr/strcasecmp.c defines str[n]casecmp functions which do accept NULL arguments. /usr/include/string.h declares strcasecmp: extern int strcasecmp (__const char *__s1, __const char

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] remove broken from-the-future increment?

2007-05-19 Thread dean gaudet
wait a day and try again? ;) perhaps find, xargs and touch are your friends: touch /tmp/now find /backup/location -type f -newer /tmp/now -print0 \ | xargs -0 touch -dean On Fri, 18 May 2007, Dan Muresan wrote: Hi all, a couple of days ago, my system clock was way off into the

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] remove broken from-the-future increment?

2007-05-19 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 19 May 2007, Dan Muresan wrote: Hi, wait a day and try again? ;) the broken timestamp is a few *months* off into the future, so you must mean wait a couple of months and try again in this case... Right? Which is not practical... perhaps find, xargs and touch are your

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] remove broken from-the-future increment?

2007-05-19 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 19 May 2007, Dan Muresan wrote: yeah you're right, a lot more editing is required... sorry, you'll either need to dive in and do all the editing or ditch your rdiff-backup-data subdir and lose the history (and start the next backup with a --force so it'll create that subdir).

[Bug 112860] Re: IDE drive not detected under VMware WS5

2007-05-17 Thread dean gaudet
i haven't tried your kernel yet -- i just have my own 2.6.22-rc1 based off the feisty /boot/config-foo, and i'm seeing the same problem (vmware 5.5.2)... i've enabled NO_HZ but booting nohz=off doesn't change the result. it looks like the mpt fusion device is recognized but somehow /dev/sda isn't

Re: [Bug 112860] Re: IDE drive not detected under VMware WS5

2007-05-17 Thread dean gaudet
stop your vm then go to vm / settings / hardware / serial... then set it to output to a file. then start your vm and in grub select the new kernel and press e to edit, then cursor to your kernel command line and again e to edit, then add console=ttyS0,115200. this will output to the file you

2.6.21 numa policy and huge pages not working

2007-05-15 Thread dean gaudet
prior to 2.6.21 i could "numactl --interleave=all" and use SHM_HUGETLB and the interleave policy would be respected. as of 2.6.21 it doesn't seem to respect the policy on SHM_HUGETLB request. see test program below. output from pre-2.6.21: 2ab19620 interleave=0-3 file=/2\040(deleted)

2.6.21 numa policy and huge pages not working

2007-05-15 Thread dean gaudet
prior to 2.6.21 i could numactl --interleave=all and use SHM_HUGETLB and the interleave policy would be respected. as of 2.6.21 it doesn't seem to respect the policy on SHM_HUGETLB request. see test program below. output from pre-2.6.21: 2ab19620 interleave=0-3 file=/2\040(deleted) huge

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup 1.1.10 released

2007-05-15 Thread dean gaudet
please post another e-mail. FYI: I tried to get OpenSUSE factory to update to 1.1.10, but they said no because it was a devel/unstable release. Thanks Greg On 5/13/07, dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i realised i'd moved my rdiff-backup mail folder after linux-kernel in my tab list

[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup 1.1.10 released

2007-05-12 Thread dean gaudet
i realised i'd moved my rdiff-backup mail folder after linux-kernel in my tab list... and hadn't got past linux-kernel in months. oops. better late than never. as before, i haven't tested it (i'm still using 1.0.5), i'm just releasing it because there was a request for a new release. -dean

Re: [Freeciv-Dev] (PR#39361) AutoReply: windows 2.1.0-beta4-gtk2 crash

2007-04-29 Thread dean gaudet
URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39361 er obviously i meant turn done. -dean On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, The default queue wrote: load attached save game file, click turn down ... it crashes for me every time, hopefully it's repeatable for you. this is with windows

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Backup of changing files

2007-04-01 Thread dean gaudet
without knowing anything about PITR... have you actually tried restoring from rsyncs in this situation? knowing what i do about the rdiff/rsync algo i'm having a hard time imagining any such feature truly working over *all* differences. i can imagine how PITR works, and the problem i see is

Re: XFS sunit/swidth for raid10

2007-03-25 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Peter Rabbitson wrote: dean gaudet wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Peter Rabbitson wrote: dean gaudet wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Peter Rabbitson wrote: Hi, How does one determine the XFS sunit and swidth sizes for a software raid10 with 3

Re: XFS sunit/swidth for raid10

2007-03-22 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Peter Rabbitson wrote: dean gaudet wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Peter Rabbitson wrote: Hi, How does one determine the XFS sunit and swidth sizes for a software raid10 with 3 copies? mkfs.xfs uses the GET_ARRAY_INFO ioctl to get the data it needs from

Re: mdadm: raid1 with ext3 - filesystem size differs?

2007-03-20 Thread dean gaudet
it looks like you created the filesystem on the component device before creating the raid. -dean On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Hanno Meyer-Thurow wrote: Hi all! Please CC me on answers since I am not subscribed to this list, thanks. When I try to build a raid1 system with mdadm 2.6.1 the

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] tar.gz unavailable

2007-03-15 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Sean Bandes wrote: I need to work with the tar.gz version but http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/rdiff-backup/ yeilds nada. anyone have 1.0.5 in tar.gz? dunno why you're not seeing it ... when i went to your url i see it:

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] PATCH: Exclude if present

2007-03-15 Thread dean gaudet
excellent, i've wanted this feature... i'll apply it next time i'm running through patches. any chance you could do a 1.1.x port as well? thanks -dean On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Jeff Strunk wrote: I have a small contribution to make in the form of a simple selection function. My company has

Bug#414542: suspend and vigr/vipw

2007-03-12 Thread dean gaudet
Package: shadow Version: 1:4.0.18.1-7 try doing vigr/vipw and then ^Z... and fg... sometimes nastiness happens right away, sometimes it seems to take a few ^Z/fg cycles. grep -r for WUNTRACED you'll see the vipw.c code differs from the other instances... patch below. -dean p.s. i use zsh..

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] slow incrementals over ssh to localhost

2007-03-09 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Jeff Strunk wrote: Any ideas on increasing localhost performance? Is that the way it should be? use sudo with NOPASSWD. search for localhost: http://arctic.org/~dean/rdiff-backup/unattended.html -dean ___ rdiff-backup-users

Re: Raid 10 Problems?

2007-03-07 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Marc Perkel wrote: > > --- Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Mar 4 2007 19:37, Marc Perkel wrote: > > >> > > >> -b internal -- seems like a good idea to speed > > up > > >> resynchronization. > > > > > >I'm trying to figure out what the default is.

Re: Raid 10 Problems?

2007-03-07 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Marc Perkel wrote: --- Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 4 2007 19:37, Marc Perkel wrote: -b internal -- seems like a good idea to speed up resynchronization. I'm trying to figure out what the default is. -b none, meaning the

Re: [PATCH, RFT, v2] sata_mv: convert to new EH

2007-03-05 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: Dave Dillow wrote: BUG: at drivers/ata/sata_mv.c:1245 mv_qc_issue() BUG: at drivers/ata/sata_mv.c:1245 mv_qc_issue() BUG: at drivers/ata/sata_mv.c:1245 mv_qc_issue() BUG: at drivers/ata/sata_mv.c:1245 mv_qc_issue() BUG: at

Re: Replace drive in RAID5 without losing redundancy?

2007-03-05 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Neil Brown wrote: On Monday March 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to mark a disk as to be replaced by an existing spare, then migrate to the spare disk and kick the old disk _after_ migration has been done? Or not even kick - but mark as new spare.

Re: Linux Software RAID Bitmap Question

2007-02-28 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Neil Brown wrote: On Sunday February 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe Neil stated that using bitmaps does incur a 10% performance penalty. If one's box never (or rarely) crashes, is a bitmap needed? I think I said it can incur such a penalty. The actual cost

Re: Reshaping raid0/10

2007-02-21 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Neil Brown wrote: On Wednesday February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, are there any plans to support reshaping on raid0 and raid10? No concrete plans. It largely depends on time and motivation. I expect that the various flavours of raid5/raid6

Re: console scroll lock causes DOS

2007-02-18 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Andy wrote: > If the scroll lock is on and there is a bunch of console output, the machine > will eventually stop responding to the network, until scroll lock is turned > off (at sometimes that doesn't even help). > > Easy test: > > hit scroll lock > do a few echo t >

Re: console scroll lock causes DOS

2007-02-18 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Andy wrote: If the scroll lock is on and there is a bunch of console output, the machine will eventually stop responding to the network, until scroll lock is turned off (at sometimes that doesn't even help). Easy test: hit scroll lock do a few echo t

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Patch for pid_running() in regress.py

2007-02-18 Thread dean gaudet
i don't think sending a SIGCONT is a good idea... perhaps the other backup was SIGSTOPped for a good reason. the code should be using signal 0, not signal.NSIG. could you test that and resubmit? a signal of 0 on unix causes all the error checking to be performed but no signal is actually

Bug#410496: build-dep tetex-bin, ps2eps

2007-02-11 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Which distribution do you use: testing or unstable? I'd be surprised if there had been 'unannounced' changes in these lately. unstable Installing the build-deps ... - Considering tetex-extra - Trying tetex-extra - Considering texinfo

Bug#410496: build-dep tetex-bin, ps2eps

2007-02-10 Thread dean gaudet
Package: gsl Version: 1.8-3 i did an apt-get build-dep libgsl0-dev prior to trying to build from source... and it mostly succeeded except its looking for tex, dvips, and ps2eps binaries. so it seems gsl should Build-Depends: tetex-bin, ps2eps thanks -dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] handling of files missing in rdiff-backup repository

2007-02-04 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, this is not a real issue because we should never do such ugly file deletion in the repository, but iirc, several users have requested remove files from repository as a feature. you can delete the file... gunzip the metadata file, remove the

Re: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] handling of files missing in rdiff-backup repository

2007-02-04 Thread dean gaudet
this backup for a while because of this, started a new repository because of this. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: 04.02.07 21:37:14 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org Betreff: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] handling

Bug#409587: start earlier, stop later

2007-02-03 Thread dean gaudet
Package: watchdog Version: 5.2.6-6 i think watchdog should be amongst the earliest to start services... who knows if some startup script will hang. starting at 89 seems pretty late. and... i'd really like to use nowayout=1, but if i do that then it causes some serious cramps in my shutdown

Re: TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT brokenness?

2007-01-30 Thread dean gaudet
ping. i received no response on this one.. thanks -dean On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, dean gaudet wrote: hi... i'm having troubles matching up the tcp(7) man page description of TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT versus some comments in the kernel (2.6.20-rc2) versus how the kernel actually acts. the man page

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] More patches to get rdiff-backup working under cygwin/windows

2007-01-29 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Marc Dyksterhouse wrote: These two still need to be applied: http://www.visiwave.com/download/rdiff_backup/fs_abilities.py.2.patch http://www.visiwave.com/download/rdiff_backup/rpath.py.patch both are now committed... thanks! -dean

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] [PATCH] Re: How to Escape Globbing Patterns?

2007-01-29 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Andrew Price wrote: On 28/01/07 02:58, dean gaudet wrote: patches welcome. include a man page patch as well. Here's a first attempt, using backslash as the escape character: http://andrewprice.me.uk/dropoff/glob_escaping.diff http://andrewprice.me.uk/dropoff

[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup 1.1.8 released

2007-01-29 Thread dean gaudet
this should let the cygwin folks test out all the recent patches. -dean New in v1.1.8 (2007/01/29) -- Cygwin generates EACCESS on fsync -- so accept it rather than dieing. (Marc Dyksterhouse). Add FilenameMapping.set_init_quote_vals security exception. (Marc

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Bundle rdiff-backup

2007-01-29 Thread dean gaudet
rdiff-backup is covered by the GPL. there's a file COPYING at the root of the tarball which describes your rights. in particular you have to provide source code for changes you make to rdiff-backup. -dean On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Daniel wrote: hi to everyone, I've recently discovered

[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup 1.1.9 released

2007-01-29 Thread dean gaudet
here's a new release to fix the merge error in 1.1.8. enjoy! -dean New in v1.1.9 (2007/01/29) -- Cygwin generates OSError when changing permissions on partitions. (Patch from Andrew Ferguson.) Fix fs_abilities.py patch error with set_escape_dos_devices. (Marc

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] More patches to get rdiff-backup working under cygwin/windows

2007-01-28 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Marc Dyksterhouse wrote: Dean, I looked into what was happening with fsync under cygwin. Turns out fsync returns EACCES for any file so I added that to the except clause to prevent the exception from being re-raised. After fixing that, a few more exceptions where

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